VANITAS! VANITATUM VANITAS! (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
MY trust in nothing now is placed, Hurrah! So in the world true joy I taste, Hurrah! Then he who ...
MY trust in nothing now is placed, Hurrah! So in the world true joy I taste, Hurrah! Then he who ...
(* This ballad is also introduced in Faust, where it is sung by Margaret.) IN Thule lived a monarch, Still ...
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
How I make my soup: I draw water from a tap . . . I am not an artist. And ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
The wind blew out from Bergen, from the dawning to the day There was a wreck of trees, a fall ...
O SING unto my roundelay, O drop the briny tear with me; Dance no more at holyday, Like a running ...
O THOU, whose stern command and precepts pure (Tho' agony in every vein should start, And slowly drain the blood-drops ...
My jolly fat host with your face all a-grin, Come, open the door to us, let us come in. A ...
In law an infant, and in years a boy, In mind a slave to every vicious joy; From every sense ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Thou Power! who hast ruled me through Infancy's days, Young offspring of Fancy, 'tis time we should part; Then rise ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
THOU, Liberty, thou art my theme; Not such as idle poets dream, Who trick thee up a heathen goddess That ...
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
You mustn't show weakness and you've got to have a tan. But sometimes I feel like the thin veils of ...
In the secular night you wander around alone in your house. It's two-thirty. Everyone has deserted you, or this is ...
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
SCOTS, wha hae wi' WALLACE bled, Scots, wham BRUCE has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to Victorie! ...
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! ...
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